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Article: Foster slates third telephone town hall
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
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- October 15, 2009
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On Monday, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster of Geneva will have the third in a series of telephone town halls on health care and will wrap up a drive to contact every registered voter with a working phone in the 14th Congressional District.
That numbers about 260,000 people in roughly 189,000 households, according to Foster's communications director, Shannon O'Brien. This third round will see 90,000 homes called twice - once a day or two before the town hall and once as it begins. Telephone town halls allow mass numbers of constituents to listen in, ask questions and get answers from their elected representatives. O'Brien said the first town hall drew about 15,000 people, and the second around ...